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I am not sure if we listen to "too much" music but I feel that we don't do justice to the music that we listen to. Most people listen to music as background music or multi-tasking music and do it on less than ideal quality speakers/headphones. I have re-embraced music this past decade by creating a music listening room where I sit down with the albums, read the lyrics, check out the album liner notes, and concentrate on the music - often playing albums multiple times. Each time I focus on different aspects of the music (eg. the drums, the bass, the keyboards, etc.) It should be about the QUALITY of the music-listening experience and not about the QUANTITY of the experience....
Music is there for you to enjoy. There's no doing it justice. You have no moral or legal duty toward music. If you want to delve into the details, go ahead. If you don't, that's fine too.
Anyone older than the internet will remember the joy and excitement of hearing a song for the first time on the radio, or showed by a friend. Recording it off the radio, or going to the music shop specifically to buy that record, the excitement when you got home and that album was cherished as a prize possession.
The idea of giving our full attention to whatever it is we are doing is something I have been personally trying to improve on. Right now, I am writing this comment while listening to the video because I want to share my thoughts and observe your thoughts I have to get back to work and I will have music playing while doing so. Your point about music being sacred art is one of the reasons I moved towards purchasing and listening to more vinyl, and it’s given me the idea that I should invite a friend to hit up a record store with me, us each pick a record, and then listen them together It’s not a new concept, but it’s a lost activity of bonding Thanks for the thought experiment!
Can't believe you didn't mention the GREATEST invention of all. The Speaker. Without the speaker we'd still be using sound horns! It's amazing to me that a magnet wrapped in copper and glued to paper can not only reproduce any sound within a range of frequencies, but it can reproduce many different sounds at once.
I think this is a symptom of a greater problem, which streaming services dominating the entertainment industry and removing more of the spontaneity of just turning on the TV and finding a new show to watch. Also companies have been training consumers more and more to be comfortable not "owning" any media. Music is a large part of that. Having something tangible helps bridge the gap between the consumer and the artist. Now there is more of a disconnect where music feels more like the all encompassing word "content". You can see this with the resurgence of vinyl, as more people enjoy have a physical representation of the media they consume. There is a routine to listening to music on vinyl or on a CD. It makes music more of a communal experience, and creates a series of steps in order to consume your music. I noticed how important this sense of community is recently when I got into comic books. It a lot of ways its a very antiquated medium still around in modern times. There are a lot of inconveniences to reading comics, but those inconveniences are part of the fun. Going to the comic store and seeing tons of titles is overwhelming, but satisfying as you can skim or buy what you think is the coolest. There is a great sense of community talking to other comic fans, and being able to display the issues I have just read on my wall is fulfilling and allows me to enjoy the art beyond subscribing to a subscription service.
I recently had the tremendous fortune of going to a Taylor Swift concert with one of my best friends, who is far & away the biggest Swiftie I know, but while I was there having an incredible evening, I felt that there was something... off about the whole experience, something that I hadn't been able to put into words until after watching this video. The vast majority of shows that I've been to have been at small, local theatres or in the backs of local bars. I think I get my energy at concerts from nonverbally communicating with the performers and bouncing off the energy of my friends. For me, a concert or a gig is a communal experience where the most important thing is having a shared experience with people I love. When I saw Taylor Swift with my best friend, I wasn't able to bounce off my friend's energy as much because she was more preoccupied with experiencing Taylor Swift, because it's Taylor freaking Swift, than she was with having an experience with me. I don't begrudge her that by any means, but it felt like, to borrow a phrase from the video, my friend was observing and witnessing the music, rather than participating in it communally with her friend. I think that's why the vibes were off for me, and I guess why I kinda agree with the thesis of this video. I'm so used to small, intimate shows where I'm right there with the performers and smooshed together in the back of a bar with my friends that I didn't know what to do with the energy of an arena show and the habits of popular music consumption. I don't think than I believe that arenas shows are the wrong way of experiencing music, but they're certainly very different.
ABSOLUTELY, we do! I've never commented before watching before, but the last decades of my life have had music encroaching ever more into every space. I think it's wonderful that there are so many more genres and ways to enjoy music than ever before, but as a highly sensitive person, I can't handle the degree to which it has taken over everything. The way music is often used strikes me as lazy, as a manipulative tool rather than a celebration of expression.
Simple answer. No. I can’t go a day without listening to, making or talking about music. Also I got adhd I’ll start singing, humming or referring to music some form or fashion. It’s my favorite drug. It’s all I have when I wanna escape. Maybe just me.
I listen to certain songs because they have a nostalgic memory attached to them. I also have an anxiety disorder and listening to music while doing things, such as shopping helps me stay relaxed in a public setting. Music is a journey with so many genres, styles, and lyrical meanings you can listen to as many songs as possible and cannot listen to every single song in your lifetime. The memories and emotions that music brings out is part of who we are as people. You can never listen to much music, it is to be shared and enjoyed.
Can we eat too much? Yes. Can we sleep to much? Yes. Can we move or stay still to much? Yes. Can we listen to too much music? Of course. “Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions”.
I think, like anything else in life, we just need balance. Try to balance your consumption habits like for example, having a special time of day that you listen to music or a special place where you listen. Take time every day to just do stuff in silence or just think, it'll keep you from feeling bored and groggy all the time. Try to share music with friends or family and go to events centered around music to engage with it more. If you wanna take it a step further, begin to research the music you enjoy and learn how it was made and the techniques that were used. Maybe even try performing and creating yourself. Make it fun and interactive for yourself, not just with music but any other media or interest. I, too, struggle with the overcomsumption thing, but i think it helps to take some tims to think about things and rearrange how we live our lives. I agree that music has kind lost a lot of its original purposes in society and local communities like you mentioned, so its best to change and make decisions we are in control of cause it can be easy to get worried.
I have noticed that when I’m with a group of people (like my friends, family, coworkers, etc.) finding music to play in the background that we all can sing along to or share anecdotes on has become almost impossible unless you stick to a very specific timeframe, and usually pre-2015. 15 years ago you could be at a party and have a “party playlist”, where you knew the vast majority of people there would know most of the songs either because they were massive hits or because they had listened to them on the radio on their commute or inside the store while shopping. There were songs many of us knew because they were “restaurant songs” or “songs playing in the background inside of American Eagle/Forever 21/H&M” In that sense, the notion of “the songs of a generation” was a les amorphous term than it is nowadays. I still remember the summer when Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina” would constantly play inside every single mall, restaurant, and grocery store. My group of friends still joke about how tired we were of that damn song by week two, but on the other hand, it was the “it” song of that time, and even though Reggaetton as a genre has grown massively in both popularity and diversity, the sense of an “it” song we all sing along to while dancing was -in my opinion- lost in the process. I often wonder if teenagers nowadays share “it” songs like we used to. In 2008 there was a lot of overlap between any given person’s “songs of the summer” playlist than now. Aside from a few massive hits like “espresso”, most of us will have embarked on our own personal journeys of music discovery that shares little to nothing with anyone else’s. That is both amazing in that you no longer have to explain your tastes to anybody (shaming people for their music tastes was REALLY lame), and sad that aside from massive concerts or music festivals like you said in the video, it’s hard to find community experiences where everyone sings along or bops to the same song.
I imagine it's more than festivals that music gets played a lot. People do go to bars and clubs, where I'm sure a lot of the same popular music gets played? I honestly have no idea, but it was always like that before ....so idk, probably still is
Your point about giving our wholehearted attention to a song or album having become harder as one gets older resonates with me some of the time. In my case, it depends heavily on my first impression whether or not I will give a song or album more of my attention and I try to listen to music in “good faith” so that I don’t immediately wave it away. However, once I pass that barrier, it is very easy for me to give it my full attention.
10:40 - understand what I am getting from this is - People want to make more money > more money via larger venues > People plan for the larger venues > people have smaller amounts of participation to "save" for these experiences and forgo the smaller experiences. I have seen smaller venues shutdown because not enough participation from both bands and listeners.
I ordered the BRAT Remix album on CD when it first came out. I'd been a casual fan of Charli XCX for a while but my brother, on the other hand, has been a superfan for years. I suggested that when it arrived, I host him for a listening party, and he loved the idea. We agreed not to stream it and wait to listen to it for the first time at the "party", which was just us sitting and laying down listening to the CD. We had a blast! We got upt to dance and discussed our thoughts and really struggled to read the lyrics because EVERYTHING WAS WRITTEN BACKWARDS. Watching this video reminded me of how nice it was to share that moment, and that album, with someone I cared about who was honestly even more invested than I was. I'd definitely recommend hosting a listening party to anyone who's even remotely interested, even if it's just a bluetooth speaker and some chips for your guests
After living three decades in a major metro city where going out to live music was expensive and required an investment of time to drive, park, get into the venue, and thus meant that we rarely enjoyed live performances, I moved to a small but culturally rich location where live music of every variety is available, it’s affordable, and easily accessed. We now go out at least once a week. We experiment with artists we’ve never heard of before (after sampling them on UA-cam or Spotify). I’ve seen more live music in two years than I saw in the previous twenty. And I even traveled to take in a major arena show by an iconic band I’d never seen perform. All of this inspired me, at an age made famous by a particular Beatles’ song, to become a music student. Perhaps I’m the anomaly, but I feel like I give music more attention now than I ever have. And that’s been a good thing.
Recently decided to approach music in a more minimalist way: choosing my all time 20 favorites and alternating listening sessions for each of those 20. It has been quite relaxing and not as overwhelming as trying to listen to 600 artists.
I have a similar approach. I made a “(insert genre here) Hall of Fame” playlist set. These playlists have some rules: no skipping songs, no removing songs after adding them to the playlist, and in some cases, no more than 40 or so songs. This reduces clutter and ensures that l’ll come back to revise the list and think thoroughly before adding more songs.
For me there's a lot of aspects to consider, but i think about this quite a bit. There's the fact that I feel a physical response to music, and I've become kind of addicted to that feeling that I've been consistently chasing all my life. There's also the escape from my internal thoughts as a result, which can be nice. But music is kind of my life's focus to the point where I've designed my job, my friend groups, my life and social activities around music. And yet the increasing presence of music is absolutely devaluing it monetarily and in focus/digestion. And it also saddens me that I am still missing out on so much music, so many genres and eras and artists and songs. Lots of great thoughts here!
It's bonkers that 100 years ago most people could only listen to music if someone in the room was playing it was an actual instrument. Overconsumption of anything CAN be bad.
Actually, it's a very good question! I have been thinking about it for a while. I always think of Borges, the famous Argentine writer, who said: "I've tried to reread more than read, I think rereading is more important than reading, only of course to reread something you have to have read it first. That's my book cult." (Jorge Luis Borges: Immortality)
I’ve always struggled to share my love of a wide variety of music. There is nothing like listening to The Beasty Boys and having a cop friend walk into your shop and say, “I didn’t know you listened to that rap crap.” That’s just one example as I listen to everything from classical and opera to country, folk, bluegrass to rock and roll from its roots to yesterday, punk, prog rock ska, reggae and so on. When you get made fun of or people can’t or won’t understand your love for music you stop sharing it and it quickly becomes deeply personal.
I think I saw a tweet recently about how life used to be really boring. Maybe it was better to have nothing to occupy your time, it gave you a better appreciation of hobbies. I feel like this overconsumption can be applied to different things like watching movies/tv, playing video games, and how we take them for granted. Reading is maybe the only media hobby that doesn’t go with this, at least from my perspective it’s more interactive, it’s guided by your pace.
until VERY recently I was very much addicted to youtube, podcast and the like. I wasnt able and didnt WANT to be alone with my thoughts because of depression and shit. After this years spotify wrapped dropped I realised I only claim to love music, but dont listen to much anymore. Something had to change, my behavior on youtube, reddit etc. Now I try to listen to music as a "distraction" from my bad thoughts. But unlike someone talking in the background I can have self reflecting thoughts, despite or maybe even because I listen to music. This video dropping now is very ironic for me. For sure some valid points about music "brain rotting" us the same way social media can but in my opinion its not nearly as bad. Im pretty happy where I am now on my path, music is the gateway to a better life again. Dont know why I typed all this, but just felt like I wanted to tell someone. Even its just a comment section.
This is not a bad or stupid question at all. People forget, or perhaps don't even realize that value is subjective, and this subjectivity applies to music as well as everything else we apply value to. Scarcity is one of the big determiners of how we value something, be it how much water, gold, or music is available to us. I remember the first albums I got through the RCA Music service, and not just because they were 8-track tapes. They were the first albums I got for myself. Likewise, I remember the first compact discs I got, and how different the sound quality was. There are other songs and albums I remember because they're associated with certain memories or emotions that I experienced in my life. With the availability of the internet, vast amounts of music are now available to listen to at little or no cost. But we still need something to make any particular song or album special to us, and thus, considered more valuable. We still need to associate it with something in our lives in some way. So, the short answer is yes, we probably DO listen to too much music, unless you deliberately avoid listening to music except in limited circumstances. One thing I sometimes do is simply take a musical sabbatical and instead, just listen to silence. In the house, in the yard, in a park, wherever. No music for a while. This gives the first few songs I listen to afterwards the chance to hit me harder and be more meaningful to me. I can't get too worked up about streaming services like Spotify, because they have no monopoly--I'm not on Spotify, and therefore they have no control over what I listen to. I AM on UA-cam a lot, and stumble across music that way, but it's still not the only way I discover new music.
The older I get the more I feel like I've heard every drunk pub philosophy lesson there is. Then someone says something that profoundly challenges how I interpret the world. Thank you.
All the music I listen to is helping me to get into the studio to make MORE music. I totally agree with your ideas toward algorithm driven music selection. It's a form of mund vontrol and tyranny. Take back your musical sensibilities and awareness!!!
Before I had regular Internet access, I went through regular depressive episodes because I had listened to all the music available to me ad nauseum. My brain needs new and different music to work properly and give me the happy juice
I think it comes to all forms of art. People are not going to expositions and small theaters. The only people using those spaces end up being those who are specially interested in the niche, but not the common folk.
Noticed the Ornette Coleman Free Jazz album and being from Fort Worth where he was born, also attending University of North Texas where they have an excellent jazz program, I'm always amazed he is not more recognized around the metroplex.
I'm slightly more of a film guy than a music guy, but I've often had the thought that "Art exists to make sense of life" but recently I feel many people are now more disappointed that life itself isn't more like art. Because we consume so much more of one than the other. Life is absurd, Art makes sense, and instead of Art being this once in a while thought experiment that helps us understand the world, it becomes this yearning for a perfect essence that can only exist momentarily. Idk thats just my thoughts.
I'm 53 and music has been a huge part of my life. I definitely noticed a change in my attention span with music. It use to be that I'd listen to an entire album, sometimes multiple times before I decided how much i like it but now when I come across something new on UA-cam,if it doesn't grab my attention quickly, i move on to something else without giving it much chance. So,,, I understand what your trying to say with your question.
I'm 51. I've undergone a similar shift. But really, it's that I've gotten much better at recognizing what types of music and what songs I like, and streaming makes that easy. In the past, I was playing whole albums on CD, and I knew I was listening to songs I didn't particularly like, but listening to albums was what you did, and the CD format encouraged that. Now, I don't think I'm missing anything, I'm getting more of what I like most instead of spending time with songs I'll never like a lot.
I would say so. I agree with lots of your points and just don't have much to add. I would just also say the obvious of people taking music for granted now and don't even care too much about what is playing. They just need something playing, otherwise they cant function, and thats scary. And its sad because it drops the literacy of impressive and artistic achievements because they dont fit the mold of casual brainless listening, and thus takes away true artists from getting the chance at mainstream attention.
I kind of had the opposite problem. I stopped listening to music years ago because I can’t just listen passively and I had so much other life stuff going on. I’m finally at a point where I have the space to engage again, and as expected, things don’t get done when I have a new song/album/band to hyperfixate on lol
Music , unfortunately has become devalued for all the reasons that you've outlined, but I do think that channels , like yours that take a deeper dive into an artist or album, helps us slow down and listen in more depth. I'm 70 so I did grow up in a time when you had to make a trip to the record store, plop down cash, take it home, put it on a turn table and listen, usually with headphones and scrutinizing the album cover, it's images and information. It did make it all seem more precious and important.Music literally costs nothing or almost nothing. I feel for the musicians that are trying to make a profession out of music. It's almost impossible.I fear this is not going to change in the foreseeable future, but artists have a way of making something new out of limitations, as you've alluded to. Meanwhile, thanks for your good work.
Unless your music listening gets in the way of the work you do, the friends you have, or the people trying to talk to you, there can be no such thing as doing it too much. I like to have music playing or a youtube video on most of the time because I have tinnitus, so having something playing in my ears is the only thing that stops the ringing. I don't listen to music when I read, which I do daily on my breaks at work or when I sleep at night. I look for new music every Friday and have found like 30 new artists I like this year. I still buy CD's and picked up Snoop Dogg's new CD today after work and have preorded the Kendrick Lamar GNX CD already. Spotify is garbage. I've probably spent around $600 on CD's this year.
I will first address the last two questions at the end: It's not so much about the public but about the right music with thought provoking universal messages and raw emotional stories, driving people to introspection and sharing it with others. Such music still exists, though in a much scarcer quantity. This kind of music still manages to grip a person's attention and make them completely involved. Honestly I am very surprised you haven't done analysis videos on such genre defining impactful artists like Ren for example. And to address the main question: yes, people listen to too much music... not worth listening to. Not really. It's music with zero long term impact from which they learn nothing. They are not enriched intellectually by it. The music that does all of these things... deserves a defined chunk of our time dedicated to it. And as I said in my first paragraph, that is partly the music's job.
I make my own playlists. I do not subscribe to music services. I do not stream. Much of this is my antipathy to the idea of being beholden to a constant payment, but part of it is I like to connect with the music I listen to.
I am always looking for recommendations from people or channels like yours. You said yourself when you get recommendations, you rarely check them out. I do.
Any current day analysis that ignores the reality of the ongoing covi-d pandemi-c is not going to be accurate. I am halfway through, and i refuse to sit through the other half just to hear about the "loneliness epidemic" without discussing any of the root causes
I think we're expected to. There's something about modern music consumption where people are expected to have well rounded knowledge about everything and it ends up making people have shallow music taste that is based on the opinion of critics or whatever is popular. If I want to listen to exclusively Sunn O))) for a month, I will. If I want to deep dive into Miles Davis or Boris discographies, I will. If I feel like disregarding new music completely in 2025, I'll do it without feeling like I'm missing out. Do what you want, lol.
When I don't have music on, my mind "plays" music in the background for me. I figure it's probably less cognitively demanding to just put music on instead, especially because my internal radio just tends to play the same verse/song over and over and over.
Milton Friedman said we are not a country of individuals, but a country of families. So, I think in the west the erosion of the community/families like you said is logical and could be why.
Boy, that was good! I want to add that we will now compare ourselves with world class singers and musicians, which makes it embarrassing to create music in public. So the guy singing off-key at karaoke is actually contributing to society?!
It’s a question that never needed an answer until the start of the 20th century. Before that, there was no such thing as recorded music 🎼. Now that we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st century, we have multiple opportunities to listen 🎧 to music now. Yes, modern musical technology may be changing how we consume music 🎶 or how we communicate musically as a society, but I believe that, with changes, we will develop new ways for society to communicate musically as a society. Things are still new and evolving. We may not see the positives for much later.
A couple of things... Communal importance is so over rated. Wife & I often thought we were born in the wrong country, and it took me well into my 20s before I quit listening to the same boring music I was exposed to by my peers & local radio. Thank goodness I completely quit listing to radio, and so much of my music came from reading books about music & seeking out artists. I've never have or never will stream music, so my only source new music by literature & movies. I listen to about four hours a day of my music, maybe 45 minutes critical listening, otherwise while driving, riding my bike (always albums) and doing house hold tasks. I don't understand, and my wife falls into this also, why one would listen to podcasts during those tasks. Anyway thanks for thought proking video, and as a side note, not digging the 4:3 video format. I guess I'm old enough to have hated that were were the last the get widescreen TVs or just that maybe I watch you on my home theater & just want the screen filled?
great video mate, one thing wrong: is not true that making music is cheaper than ever. What is cheaper than ever is overdubbing yourself and put out in internet track made by someone else. When collaboration is needed that is impossible... and real music happens when human collaborate. The idea of a genius overdubbing himself in his bedroom is a little sad.
As someone who grew up around musicians, listening to music, recording music, going to concerts, working at concerts, going to school for audio engineering, promoting music, setting up sound systems for shows, and jamming with various musicians I decided to take a break from music for 3 months. As someone who's been saturated in music from before I can remember all the way to my late 30s I found taking a step back from listening to music or producing music I actually found the silence quite refreshing after a few days of getting used to it. I started listening to music again a few days ago but started with artists I haven't heard that were recommendations from friends. Once I started to listen again especially with stuff I haven't heard yet it sounded so new and more exciting than music has felt to me in a while I made a plan to do at least 3-5 hours of noble silence meditation once a week at a Buddhist temple across the town from me. I used to go for 3 hours of the noble silence once a month for several years but got caught up with work and family life. I've been learning to balance all that and take time to let the silence heal in such a noisy world.
Fr tho! I find that when I listen to music too much, I start to get anxious doin chores without it. But it also makes me feel ill, like headaches and junk
LIVE music is crucial to building scenes and community. i feel like the more music you discover, the more shows youll go to. Radio has played the same stuff fer decades. A wek doesnt go buy now where i dont here a great band thats new to me
Mike from Become the Knight youtube channel made a video a while ago talking about too much music. As much as we LOVE it, it’s definitely unhealthy to be listening to it 24/7 Let your brain think in silence and take a week break from it at least, you’ll know exactly he means.
I hope not as my Spotify Wrapped this year said I was in the top 2% of listeners by time with 93,500 minutes. Top 0.05% of my most listened to artist who has >15m monthly listeners.
Not too much music-- too much ADVERTISING. We're getting closer and closer as a society to realizing that the loneliness, the atomization, the disconnectedness is all due to one thing: unchecked rampant fucking capitalizm
Never for me. I will never disconnect and my attention span has always been bad with my ADHD 😂 as far as I can tell music has saved my life many way I can count. So it is embedded in the DNA and soul. Never give it up. But as time goes on.... The magic and curisoity of music will wane with AI. Long after I am gone all originalty from music will be ended. Every has been done has been done. There will be no more Icons and richness of sonic shapes. No more auto tune and AI. Then we might have more hope for the art. The lack of physical copies is a shame and that is part of the problem. That is why artists charge insane prices for live music.
I think yes, for me at least I want to listen to that new album of that artist I love and also listen to that album I loved as kid, and also to that clasic, and there's also this old song that was in a movie so now I need to discovre this artist collection, and I want to discovre music from around the world, and also hear what this new artist everyone talks about, and there's this hidden jam my friend told me about and the list goes on...
I haven't watched yet but I hope you've fixed the sound level issue you've been having lately. I have to crank the stereo to hear you clearly then suddenly there's a bit of a bass-heavy song that distorts my bedroom system's wee speakers.
One disturbing trend I’ve been seeing a lot in the UA-cam comments are folk thanking the algorithm for a piece of music/album it steered their way. Some going even further and calling the UA-cam algorithm a god. What’s even more disturbing is most of these folks listen to said music just once and sometimes not even in its entirety. The algorithm is constantly recommending and folks are constantly consuming, but no one is luxuriating and being present. Sorry state of affairs, much?
You are over thinking this. No one can dictate what you should want to get out of music. Some want to analyze it, others just want background noise. People can listen to as much or as little as they want.
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Thanks for the video.
I am not sure if we listen to "too much" music but I feel that we don't do justice to the music that we listen to. Most people listen to music as background music or multi-tasking music and do it on less than ideal quality speakers/headphones. I have re-embraced music this past decade by creating a music listening room where I sit down with the albums, read the lyrics, check out the album liner notes, and concentrate on the music - often playing albums multiple times. Each time I focus on different aspects of the music (eg. the drums, the bass, the keyboards, etc.) It should be about the QUALITY of the music-listening experience and not about the QUANTITY of the experience....
Music is there for you to enjoy. There's no doing it justice. You have no moral or legal duty toward music. If you want to delve into the details, go ahead. If you don't, that's fine too.
I have ADHD. If i don't listen to music i still have music running in my head 24/7.
Do you ever get through a song or is it just bits and pieces on repeat/shuffle?
@Alex-js5lg Mostly a certain section that is kinda looped but usually it shifts after a certain time.
The best is when you're trying to sleep and the more you try and unstick it from your head the more it manifests itself into insomnia
Me too. I’m having trouble sleeping because I’m on this music adventure to expand my taste. Album after album. I’m exhausted, but I can’t stop
Is that true?
Yes, I listen to too much music because there are still so many albums and artists I haven't discovered, and so little time to explore them.
Then it's the polar opposite of "too much". "Not enough" is what you're going for.
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@UnderScoredd Geez. Thanks! I fixed my sentence. Now, you can go and feel really good about yourself. Auf wiedersehen! 🚷🧠
Anyone older than the internet will remember the joy and excitement of hearing a song for the first time on the radio, or showed by a friend. Recording it off the radio, or going to the music shop specifically to buy that record, the excitement when you got home and that album was cherished as a prize possession.
The idea of giving our full attention to whatever it is we are doing is something I have been personally trying to improve on. Right now, I am writing this comment while listening to the video because I want to share my thoughts and observe your thoughts
I have to get back to work and I will have music playing while doing so.
Your point about music being sacred art is one of the reasons I moved towards purchasing and listening to more vinyl, and it’s given me the idea that I should invite a friend to hit up a record store with me, us each pick a record, and then listen them together
It’s not a new concept, but it’s a lost activity of bonding
Thanks for the thought experiment!
Can't believe you didn't mention the GREATEST invention of all. The Speaker. Without the speaker we'd still be using sound horns! It's amazing to me that a magnet wrapped in copper and glued to paper can not only reproduce any sound within a range of frequencies, but it can reproduce many different sounds at once.
sorry, but it is the wheel ☸🙂
I think this is a symptom of a greater problem, which streaming services dominating the entertainment industry and removing more of the spontaneity of just turning on the TV and finding a new show to watch. Also companies have been training consumers more and more to be comfortable not "owning" any media. Music is a large part of that.
Having something tangible helps bridge the gap between the consumer and the artist. Now there is more of a disconnect where music feels more like the all encompassing word "content".
You can see this with the resurgence of vinyl, as more people enjoy have a physical representation of the media they consume. There is a routine to listening to music on vinyl or on a CD. It makes music more of a communal experience, and creates a series of steps in order to consume your music.
I noticed how important this sense of community is recently when I got into comic books. It a lot of ways its a very antiquated medium still around in modern times. There are a lot of inconveniences to reading comics, but those inconveniences are part of the fun. Going to the comic store and seeing tons of titles is overwhelming, but satisfying as you can skim or buy what you think is the coolest.
There is a great sense of community talking to other comic fans, and being able to display the issues I have just read on my wall is fulfilling and allows me to enjoy the art beyond subscribing to a subscription service.
What else are my ears for, but slowly degrading through my enjoyment of loud and moving music? It is my heartbeat.
I recently had the tremendous fortune of going to a Taylor Swift concert with one of my best friends, who is far & away the biggest Swiftie I know, but while I was there having an incredible evening, I felt that there was something... off about the whole experience, something that I hadn't been able to put into words until after watching this video.
The vast majority of shows that I've been to have been at small, local theatres or in the backs of local bars. I think I get my energy at concerts from nonverbally communicating with the performers and bouncing off the energy of my friends. For me, a concert or a gig is a communal experience where the most important thing is having a shared experience with people I love.
When I saw Taylor Swift with my best friend, I wasn't able to bounce off my friend's energy as much because she was more preoccupied with experiencing Taylor Swift, because it's Taylor freaking Swift, than she was with having an experience with me. I don't begrudge her that by any means, but it felt like, to borrow a phrase from the video, my friend was observing and witnessing the music, rather than participating in it communally with her friend.
I think that's why the vibes were off for me, and I guess why I kinda agree with the thesis of this video. I'm so used to small, intimate shows where I'm right there with the performers and smooshed together in the back of a bar with my friends that I didn't know what to do with the energy of an arena show and the habits of popular music consumption. I don't think than I believe that arenas shows are the wrong way of experiencing music, but they're certainly very different.
ABSOLUTELY, we do! I've never commented before watching before, but the last decades of my life have had music encroaching ever more into every space. I think it's wonderful that there are so many more genres and ways to enjoy music than ever before, but as a highly sensitive person, I can't handle the degree to which it has taken over everything. The way music is often used strikes me as lazy, as a manipulative tool rather than a celebration of expression.
Simple answer. No. I can’t go a day without listening to, making or talking about music. Also I got adhd I’ll start singing, humming or referring to music some form or fashion. It’s my favorite drug. It’s all I have when I wanna escape. Maybe just me.
I listen to certain songs because they have a nostalgic memory attached to them. I also have an anxiety disorder and listening to music while doing things, such as shopping helps me stay relaxed in a public setting. Music is a journey with so many genres, styles, and lyrical meanings you can listen to as many songs as possible and cannot listen to every single song in your lifetime. The memories and emotions that music brings out is part of who we are as people. You can never listen to much music, it is to be shared and enjoyed.
Exactly this, thank you
Can we eat too much? Yes.
Can we sleep to much? Yes.
Can we move or stay still to much? Yes.
Can we listen to too much music? Of course.
“Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions”.
I get one point, and it's a really good one. People isn't listening to music. They are just multitasking with music in the background.
I think, like anything else in life, we just need balance. Try to balance your consumption habits like for example, having a special time of day that you listen to music or a special place where you listen. Take time every day to just do stuff in silence or just think, it'll keep you from feeling bored and groggy all the time. Try to share music with friends or family and go to events centered around music to engage with it more. If you wanna take it a step further, begin to research the music you enjoy and learn how it was made and the techniques that were used. Maybe even try performing and creating yourself. Make it fun and interactive for yourself, not just with music but any other media or interest. I, too, struggle with the overcomsumption thing, but i think it helps to take some tims to think about things and rearrange how we live our lives. I agree that music has kind lost a lot of its original purposes in society and local communities like you mentioned, so its best to change and make decisions we are in control of cause it can be easy to get worried.
Sorry, couldn’t hear you my headphones were all the way up
This question has been following me for a long time.
Thank you
I have noticed that when I’m with a group of people (like my friends, family, coworkers, etc.) finding music to play in the background that we all can sing along to or share anecdotes on has become almost impossible unless you stick to a very specific timeframe, and usually pre-2015.
15 years ago you could be at a party and have a “party playlist”, where you knew the vast majority of people there would know most of the songs either because they were massive hits or because they had listened to them on the radio on their commute or inside the store while shopping.
There were songs many of us knew because they were “restaurant songs” or “songs playing in the background inside of American Eagle/Forever 21/H&M”
In that sense, the notion of “the songs of a generation” was a les amorphous term than it is nowadays. I still remember the summer when Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina” would constantly play inside every single mall, restaurant, and grocery store. My group of friends still joke about how tired we were of that damn song by week two, but on the other hand, it was the “it” song of that time, and even though Reggaetton as a genre has grown massively in both popularity and diversity, the sense of an “it” song we all sing along to while dancing was -in my opinion- lost in the process.
I often wonder if teenagers nowadays share “it” songs like we used to. In 2008 there was a lot of overlap between any given person’s “songs of the summer” playlist than now. Aside from a few massive hits like “espresso”, most of us will have embarked on our own personal journeys of music discovery that shares little to nothing with anyone else’s. That is both amazing in that you no longer have to explain your tastes to anybody (shaming people for their music tastes was REALLY lame), and sad that aside from massive concerts or music festivals like you said in the video, it’s hard to find community experiences where everyone sings along or bops to the same song.
I imagine it's more than festivals that music gets played a lot. People do go to bars and clubs, where I'm sure a lot of the same popular music gets played? I honestly have no idea, but it was always like that before ....so idk, probably still is
Your point about giving our wholehearted attention to a song or album having become harder as one gets older resonates with me some of the time. In my case, it depends heavily on my first impression whether or not I will give a song or album more of my attention and I try to listen to music in “good faith” so that I don’t immediately wave it away. However, once I pass that barrier, it is very easy for me to give it my full attention.
Yes, I listen to so much music that I have less memorable experiences with music nowadays.
10:40 - understand what I am getting from this is - People want to make more money > more money via larger venues > People plan for the larger venues > people have smaller amounts of participation to "save" for these experiences and forgo the smaller experiences. I have seen smaller venues shutdown because not enough participation from both bands and listeners.
I ordered the BRAT Remix album on CD when it first came out. I'd been a casual fan of Charli XCX for a while but my brother, on the other hand, has been a superfan for years. I suggested that when it arrived, I host him for a listening party, and he loved the idea. We agreed not to stream it and wait to listen to it for the first time at the "party", which was just us sitting and laying down listening to the CD. We had a blast! We got upt to dance and discussed our thoughts and really struggled to read the lyrics because EVERYTHING WAS WRITTEN BACKWARDS. Watching this video reminded me of how nice it was to share that moment, and that album, with someone I cared about who was honestly even more invested than I was. I'd definitely recommend hosting a listening party to anyone who's even remotely interested, even if it's just a bluetooth speaker and some chips for your guests
love the bowie posters
After living three decades in a major metro city where going out to live music was expensive and required an investment of time to drive, park, get into the venue, and thus meant that we rarely enjoyed live performances, I moved to a small but culturally rich location where live music of every variety is available, it’s affordable, and easily accessed. We now go out at least once a week. We experiment with artists we’ve never heard of before (after sampling them on UA-cam or Spotify). I’ve seen more live music in two years than I saw in the previous twenty. And I even traveled to take in a major arena show by an iconic band I’d never seen perform. All of this inspired me, at an age made famous by a particular Beatles’ song, to become a music student. Perhaps I’m the anomaly, but I feel like I give music more attention now than I ever have. And that’s been a good thing.
Recently decided to approach music in a more minimalist way: choosing my all time 20 favorites and alternating listening sessions for each of those 20. It has been quite relaxing and not as overwhelming as trying to listen to 600 artists.
I have a similar approach. I made a “(insert genre here) Hall of Fame” playlist set. These playlists have some rules: no skipping songs, no removing songs after adding them to the playlist, and in some cases, no more than 40 or so songs. This reduces clutter and ensures that l’ll come back to revise the list and think thoroughly before adding more songs.
For me there's a lot of aspects to consider, but i think about this quite a bit. There's the fact that I feel a physical response to music, and I've become kind of addicted to that feeling that I've been consistently chasing all my life. There's also the escape from my internal thoughts as a result, which can be nice. But music is kind of my life's focus to the point where I've designed my job, my friend groups, my life and social activities around music.
And yet the increasing presence of music is absolutely devaluing it monetarily and in focus/digestion. And it also saddens me that I am still missing out on so much music, so many genres and eras and artists and songs. Lots of great thoughts here!
It's bonkers that 100 years ago most people could only listen to music if someone in the room was playing it was an actual instrument. Overconsumption of anything CAN be bad.
Nah. Music is life.
Happy Holidays! See you next year. Cheers!
Better question: How much silence do you experience daily?
Actually, it's a very good question! I have been thinking about it for a while. I always think of Borges, the famous Argentine writer, who said: "I've tried to reread more than read, I think rereading is more important than reading, only of course to reread something you have to have read it first. That's my book cult." (Jorge Luis Borges: Immortality)
As a musician and someone with really bad attention issues, music is just constantly playing in my head. It's all I really think about.
I’ve always struggled to share my love of a wide variety of music. There is nothing like listening to The Beasty Boys and having a cop friend walk into your shop and say, “I didn’t know you listened to that rap crap.” That’s just one example as I listen to everything from classical and opera to country, folk, bluegrass to rock and roll from its roots to yesterday, punk, prog rock ska, reggae and so on. When you get made fun of or people can’t or won’t understand your love for music you stop sharing it and it quickly becomes deeply personal.
2:02 cbat
I think I saw a tweet recently about how life used to be really boring. Maybe it was better to have nothing to occupy your time, it gave you a better appreciation of hobbies. I feel like this overconsumption can be applied to different things like watching movies/tv, playing video games, and how we take them for granted. Reading is maybe the only media hobby that doesn’t go with this, at least from my perspective it’s more interactive, it’s guided by your pace.
I love how some songs are meant to listened to at a certain volume or with louder speakers and just hits that itch in your brain
until VERY recently I was very much addicted to youtube, podcast and the like.
I wasnt able and didnt WANT to be alone with my thoughts because of depression and shit.
After this years spotify wrapped dropped I realised I only claim to love music, but dont listen to much anymore. Something had to change, my behavior on youtube, reddit etc.
Now I try to listen to music as a "distraction" from my bad thoughts. But unlike someone talking in the background I can have self reflecting thoughts, despite or maybe even because I listen to music.
This video dropping now is very ironic for me. For sure some valid points about music "brain rotting" us the same way social media can but in my opinion its not nearly as bad.
Im pretty happy where I am now on my path, music is the gateway to a better life again.
Dont know why I typed all this, but just felt like I wanted to tell someone. Even its just a comment section.
This is not a bad or stupid question at all. People forget, or perhaps don't even realize that value is subjective, and this subjectivity applies to music as well as everything else we apply value to.
Scarcity is one of the big determiners of how we value something, be it how much water, gold, or music is available to us. I remember the first albums I got through the RCA Music service, and not just because they were 8-track tapes. They were the first albums I got for myself. Likewise, I remember the first compact discs I got, and how different the sound quality was. There are other songs and albums I remember because they're associated with certain memories or emotions that I experienced in my life.
With the availability of the internet, vast amounts of music are now available to listen to at little or no cost. But we still need something to make any particular song or album special to us, and thus, considered more valuable. We still need to associate it with something in our lives in some way.
So, the short answer is yes, we probably DO listen to too much music, unless you deliberately avoid listening to music except in limited circumstances. One thing I sometimes do is simply take a musical sabbatical and instead, just listen to silence. In the house, in the yard, in a park, wherever. No music for a while. This gives the first few songs I listen to afterwards the chance to hit me harder and be more meaningful to me.
I can't get too worked up about streaming services like Spotify, because they have no monopoly--I'm not on Spotify, and therefore they have no control over what I listen to. I AM on UA-cam a lot, and stumble across music that way, but it's still not the only way I discover new music.
The older I get the more I feel like I've heard every drunk pub philosophy lesson there is. Then someone says something that profoundly challenges how I interpret the world. Thank you.
Great points, can't help but to agree. Merry Christmas and thank you for another year of top notch videos👌
All the music I listen to is helping me to get into the studio to make MORE music. I totally agree with your ideas toward algorithm driven music selection. It's a form of mund vontrol and tyranny. Take back your musical sensibilities and awareness!!!
minimum 12 hours a day and still discover so new music. always enjoyed digging the crates or jumping into the bandcamp rabbithole, it's my hobby.
Before I had regular Internet access, I went through regular depressive episodes because I had listened to all the music available to me ad nauseum. My brain needs new and different music to work properly and give me the happy juice
I do feel overwhelmed by the amount of music there is to listen to because I feel like I’m missing out
I think it comes to all forms of art. People are not going to expositions and small theaters. The only people using those spaces end up being those who are specially interested in the niche, but not the common folk.
While I DO use spotify, I never use their algorythms, or autoplay functions.... I listen to the albums I want to listen to, and nothing more.
Noticed the Ornette Coleman Free Jazz album and being from Fort Worth where he was born, also attending University of North Texas where they have an excellent jazz program, I'm always amazed he is not more recognized around the metroplex.
YOU CAN NEVER STOP ME
I'm slightly more of a film guy than a music guy, but I've often had the thought that "Art exists to make sense of life" but recently I feel many people are now more disappointed that life itself isn't more like art. Because we consume so much more of one than the other. Life is absurd, Art makes sense, and instead of Art being this once in a while thought experiment that helps us understand the world, it becomes this yearning for a perfect essence that can only exist momentarily. Idk thats just my thoughts.
I'm 53 and music has been a huge part of my life. I definitely noticed a change in my attention span with music. It use to be that I'd listen to an entire album, sometimes multiple times before I decided how much i like it but now when I come across something new on UA-cam,if it doesn't grab my attention quickly, i move on to something else without giving it much chance. So,,, I understand what your trying to say with your question.
I'm 51. I've undergone a similar shift. But really, it's that I've gotten much better at recognizing what types of music and what songs I like, and streaming makes that easy. In the past, I was playing whole albums on CD, and I knew I was listening to songs I didn't particularly like, but listening to albums was what you did, and the CD format encouraged that. Now, I don't think I'm missing anything, I'm getting more of what I like most instead of spending time with songs I'll never like a lot.
I would say so. I agree with lots of your points and just don't have much to add. I would just also say the obvious of people taking music for granted now and don't even care too much about what is playing. They just need something playing, otherwise they cant function, and thats scary. And its sad because it drops the literacy of impressive and artistic achievements because they dont fit the mold of casual brainless listening, and thus takes away true artists from getting the chance at mainstream attention.
I kind of had the opposite problem. I stopped listening to music years ago because I can’t just listen passively and I had so much other life stuff going on. I’m finally at a point where I have the space to engage again, and as expected, things don’t get done when I have a new song/album/band to hyperfixate on lol
Music , unfortunately has become devalued for all the reasons that you've outlined, but I do think that channels , like yours that take a deeper dive into an artist or album, helps us slow down and listen in more depth. I'm 70 so I did grow up in a time when you had to make a trip to the record store, plop down cash, take it home, put it on a turn table and listen, usually with headphones and scrutinizing the album cover, it's images and information. It did make it all seem more precious and important.Music literally costs nothing or almost nothing. I feel for the musicians that are trying to make a profession out of music. It's almost impossible.I fear this is not going to change in the foreseeable future, but artists have a way of making something new out of limitations, as you've alluded to. Meanwhile, thanks for your good work.
Unless your music listening gets in the way of the work you do, the friends you have, or the people trying to talk to you, there can be no such thing as doing it too much. I like to have music playing or a youtube video on most of the time because I have tinnitus, so having something playing in my ears is the only thing that stops the ringing. I don't listen to music when I read, which I do daily on my breaks at work or when I sleep at night. I look for new music every Friday and have found like 30 new artists I like this year. I still buy CD's and picked up Snoop Dogg's new CD today after work and have preorded the Kendrick Lamar GNX CD already. Spotify is garbage. I've probably spent around $600 on CD's this year.
Just like many forms of leisure we invented the more we try to obtain a personal sense of it the more we distance ourselves from others
I will first address the last two questions at the end: It's not so much about the public but about the right music with thought provoking universal messages and raw emotional stories, driving people to introspection and sharing it with others. Such music still exists, though in a much scarcer quantity. This kind of music still manages to grip a person's attention and make them completely involved. Honestly I am very surprised you haven't done analysis videos on such genre defining impactful artists like Ren for example.
And to address the main question: yes, people listen to too much music... not worth listening to. Not really. It's music with zero long term impact from which they learn nothing. They are not enriched intellectually by it. The music that does all of these things... deserves a defined chunk of our time dedicated to it. And as I said in my first paragraph, that is partly the music's job.
I make my own playlists. I do not subscribe to music services. I do not stream. Much of this is my antipathy to the idea of being beholden to a constant payment, but part of it is I like to connect with the music I listen to.
I am always looking for recommendations from people or channels like yours. You said yourself when you get recommendations, you rarely check them out. I do.
Any current day analysis that ignores the reality of the ongoing covi-d pandemi-c is not going to be accurate. I am halfway through, and i refuse to sit through the other half just to hear about the "loneliness epidemic" without discussing any of the root causes
I'll never stop listening to too much music
I think we're expected to. There's something about modern music consumption where people are expected to have well rounded knowledge about everything and it ends up making people have shallow music taste that is based on the opinion of critics or whatever is popular. If I want to listen to exclusively Sunn O))) for a month, I will. If I want to deep dive into Miles Davis or Boris discographies, I will. If I feel like disregarding new music completely in 2025, I'll do it without feeling like I'm missing out. Do what you want, lol.
When I don't have music on, my mind "plays" music in the background for me. I figure it's probably less cognitively demanding to just put music on instead, especially because my internal radio just tends to play the same verse/song over and over and over.
Milton Friedman said we are not a country of individuals, but a country of families.
So, I think in the west the erosion of the community/families like you said is logical and could be why.
Boy, that was good! I want to add that we will now compare ourselves with world class singers and musicians, which makes it embarrassing to create music in public. So the guy singing off-key at karaoke is actually contributing to society?!
It’s a question that never needed an answer until the start of the 20th century. Before that, there was no such thing as recorded music 🎼. Now that we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st century, we have multiple opportunities to listen 🎧 to music now. Yes, modern musical technology may be changing how we consume music 🎶 or how we communicate musically as a society, but I believe that, with changes, we will develop new ways for society to communicate musically as a society. Things are still new and evolving. We may not see the positives for much later.
This was cultural take, a personal and psychological take that focuses on value of silence and reflection would be worth exploring 😉
Modern music... actually it just helps me to listen to more old music. Well, that's one purpose!
Where’s the link to your podcast episode?
A couple of things... Communal importance is so over rated. Wife & I often thought we were born in the wrong country, and it took me well into my 20s before I quit listening to the same boring music I was exposed to by my peers & local radio. Thank goodness I completely quit listing to radio, and so much of my music came from reading books about music & seeking out artists. I've never have or never will stream music, so my only source new music by literature & movies. I listen to about four hours a day of my music, maybe 45 minutes critical listening, otherwise while driving, riding my bike (always albums) and doing house hold tasks. I don't understand, and my wife falls into this also, why one would listen to podcasts during those tasks. Anyway thanks for thought proking video, and as a side note, not digging the 4:3 video format. I guess I'm old enough to have hated that were were the last the get widescreen TVs or just that maybe I watch you on my home theater & just want the screen filled?
great video mate, one thing wrong: is not true that making music is cheaper than ever. What is cheaper than ever is overdubbing yourself and put out in internet track made by someone else. When collaboration is needed that is impossible... and real music happens when human collaborate. The idea of a genius overdubbing himself in his bedroom is a little sad.
As a question: Because most want their life to be like the movies, and all the best movies have a killer sound track?
As someone who grew up around musicians, listening to music, recording music, going to concerts, working at concerts, going to school for audio engineering, promoting music, setting up sound systems for shows, and jamming with various musicians I decided to take a break from music for 3 months.
As someone who's been saturated in music from before I can remember all the way to my late 30s I found taking a step back from listening to music or producing music I actually found the silence quite refreshing after a few days of getting used to it.
I started listening to music again a few days ago but started with artists I haven't heard that were recommendations from friends. Once I started to listen again especially with stuff I haven't heard yet it sounded so new and more exciting than music has felt to me in a while
I made a plan to do at least 3-5 hours of noble silence meditation once a week at a Buddhist temple across the town from me. I used to go for 3 hours of the noble silence once a month for several years but got caught up with work and family life. I've been learning to balance all that and take time to let the silence heal in such a noisy world.
There's no such thing as too much music. Too little time is the real issue.
What else is there for us to do?
Spotify says I've listened to 14,844 mins of music this year. Could that be accuraate?
Music is like a drug, we develop tolerance and it loses power.
I agree with it being a drug only in the sense that it feels amazing and works to distract us. Music still has yet to lose its power over me
Fr tho! I find that when I listen to music too much, I start to get anxious doin chores without it. But it also makes me feel ill, like headaches and junk
Honestly, everyone should listen to MORE videogame music!
LIVE music is crucial to building scenes and community. i feel like the more music you discover, the more shows youll go to. Radio has played the same stuff fer decades. A wek doesnt go buy now where i dont here a great band thats new to me
You see, this is why moshing exists. You can't mosh by yourself.
Mike from Become the Knight youtube channel made a video a while ago talking about too much music.
As much as we LOVE it,
it’s definitely unhealthy to be listening to it 24/7
Let your brain think in silence and take a week break from it at least, you’ll know exactly he means.
Thank you for questioning what we do..
I hope not as my Spotify Wrapped this year said I was in the top 2% of listeners by time with 93,500 minutes. Top 0.05% of my most listened to artist who has >15m monthly listeners.
If you think you ever stop listening to music you don't listen to enough feild recordings taking of headphones doesn't stop sound just take 4,33
Thank goodness I don't use music streaming services 😊
Not too much music-- too much ADVERTISING. We're getting closer and closer as a society to realizing that the loneliness, the atomization, the disconnectedness is all due to one thing: unchecked rampant fucking capitalizm
Never for me. I will never disconnect and my attention span has always been bad with my ADHD 😂 as far as I can tell music has saved my life many way I can count. So it is embedded in the DNA and soul. Never give it up. But as time goes on.... The magic and curisoity of music will wane with AI. Long after I am gone all originalty from music will be ended. Every has been done has been done. There will be no more Icons and richness of sonic shapes. No more auto tune and AI. Then we might have more hope for the art. The lack of physical copies is a shame and that is part of the problem. That is why artists charge insane prices for live music.
The Answer? No.
Depends on age group i think. Younger people would rather look on their phones like tiktok vids than listen to music. At least from what i observe
Me: *sees title*
Me: no
I think yes, for me at least
I want to listen to that new album of that artist I love
and also listen to that album I loved as kid, and also to that clasic, and there's also this old song that was in a movie so now I need to discovre this artist collection, and I want to discovre music from around the world, and also hear what this new artist everyone talks about, and there's this hidden jam my friend told me about and the list goes on...
Nah man, u right.
I haven't watched yet but I hope you've fixed the sound level issue you've been having lately. I have to crank the stereo to hear you clearly then suddenly there's a bit of a bass-heavy song that distorts my bedroom system's wee speakers.
One disturbing trend I’ve been seeing a lot in the UA-cam comments are folk thanking the algorithm for a piece of music/album it steered their way. Some going even further and calling the UA-cam algorithm a god. What’s even more disturbing is most of these folks listen to said music just once and sometimes not even in its entirety. The algorithm is constantly recommending and folks are constantly consuming, but no one is luxuriating and being present. Sorry state of affairs, much?
Did you consider how Spotify playlists are getting replaced by musak? So we’re listening more but to less art.
This is why live concerts exist and why vocaloids or AI won't take over the industry (maybe only in Japan where everyone is f*cked).
yes
this is good yes
There's never too much GOOD music.
You are over thinking this. No one can dictate what you should want to get out of music. Some want to analyze it, others just want background noise. People can listen to as much or as little as they want.
When you didn't even watch the video 🥴... cringe.
No